Navigation Drawer

Navigation drawers provide access to destinations and app functionality, such as switching accounts. They can either be permanently on-screen or controlled by a navigation menu icon.

Navigation drawers are recommended for:

Contents

• Using navigation drawers
• Installing navigation drawers
• Making navigation drawers accessible
• Theming navigation drawers

Using navigation drawers

While there is such a thing as a side navigation drawer, for example, we only provide bottom navigation drawers. Our bottom navigation drawer implementation is centered around MDCBottomDrawerViewController, a UIViewController subclass. MDCBottomDrawerViewController has a contentViewController property, whose view is displayed as the primary content of the drawer, as well as a headerViewController property, whose view is positioned above the content view controller and sticks to the top when the drawer is full-screen. For more information on implementing custom view controller classes see Apple's View Controller Programming Guide.

MDCBottomDrawerViewController presentation makes use of the UIPresentationController subclass MDCBottomDrawerPresentationController, as well as MDCBottomDrawerTransitionController, which conforms to UIViewControllerTransitioningDelegate.

If the primary content displayed in a bottom drawer is a UITableView or UICollectionView, specifically one that fills the content area, we recommend setting it as the trackingScrollView property for more performant scrolling.

It is important that the view controller used as the headerViewController conforms to the MDCBottomDrawerHeader protocol, which implements the method -updateDrawerHeaderTransitionRatio:. This method provides transitionToTopRatio, a CGFloat that moves between 0 to 1 as the header view transitions from being positioned above the content to being sticky at the top of the screen. The transition begins as the header view begins to cover the status bar and safe area and ends once the header has reached the top of the screen.

Example using the MDCBottomDrawerViewController with/without a header

Swift

let bottomDrawerViewController = MDCBottomDrawerViewController()
bottomDrawerViewController.contentViewController = UIViewController()
bottomDrawerViewController.headerViewController = UIViewController() # this is optional
present(bottomDrawerViewController, animated: true, completion: nil)

Objective-C

MDCBottomDrawerViewController *bottomDrawerViewController = [[MDCBottomDrawerViewController alloc] init];
bottomDrawerViewController.contentViewController = [UIViewController new];
bottomDrawerViewController.headerViewController = [UIViewController new];
[self presentViewController:bottomDrawerViewController animated:YES completion:nil];

Example presenting a drawer without a header

Swift

let contentViewController = UIViewController()
contentViewController.transitioningDelegate = MDCBottomDrawerTransitionController()
contentViewController.modalPresentationStyle = .custom
present(contentViewController, animated: true, completion: nil)

Objective-C

UIViewController *contentViewController = [UIViewController new];
contentViewController.transitioningDelegate = [MDCBottomDrawerTransitionController new];
contentViewController.modalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationCustom;
[self presentViewController:contentViewController animated:YES completion:nil];

Example using trackingScrollView

Swift

let contentViewController = UITableViewController()
let bottomDrawerViewController = MDCBottomDrawerViewController()
bottomDrawerViewController.contentViewController = contentViewController
bottomDrawerViewController.headerViewController = UIViewController() # this is optional
bottomDrawerViewController.trackingScrollView = contentViewController.view
present(bottomDrawerViewController, animated: true, completion: nil)

Objective-C

UITableViewController *contentViewController = [UITableViewController new];
MDCBottomDrawerViewController *bottomDrawerViewController = [[MDCBottomDrawerViewController alloc] init];
bottomDrawerViewController.contentViewController = contentViewController;
bottomDrawerViewController.headerViewController = [UIViewController new];
bottomDrawerViewController.trackingScrollView = contentViewController.view;
[self presentViewController:bottomDrawerViewController animated:YES completion:nil];

Installing navigation drawers

Add the following to your Podfile:

pod 'MaterialComponents/NavigationDrawer'

Then, run the following command:

pod install

Importing

To import the component:

Swift

import MaterialComponents.MaterialNavigationDrawer

Objective-C

#import "MaterialNavigationDrawer.h"

Making navigation drawers accessible

While MDCBottomDrawerViewController supports the accessibility escape “Z” gesture, it is advisible that the content view controller provides its own dismiss action affordance. Note that it is the responsibility of the header and content view controllers to implement any custom accessibility behavior.

Theming navigation drawers

While MDCBottomDrawerViewController does have a theming extension, it should not be relied on for ensuring the content and header are themed correctly. It only sets properties like corner radius, scrim color, and handle color. To display sufficiently themed content with MDCBottomDrawerViewController you must make sure the content and header view controllers are themed independently.

To make use of the bottom drawer theming extension you need to install it wth Cocoapods. First, add the following line to your Podfile.

pod MaterialComponents/NavigationDrawer+Theming

Then Run the installer.

pod install

Next, import the NavigationDrawer theming target, and call the correct theming method.

Swift

import MaterialComponents.MaterialNavigationDrawer
import MaterialComponents.MaterialNavigationDrawer_Theming

...
 // Create a navigation drawer
let bottomDrawerViewController = MDCBottomDrawerViewController()
 // Create or use your app's Container Scheme
let containerScheme = MDCContainerScheme()
 // Theme the bottom drawer
bottomDrawerViewController.applyTheme(withScheme: containerScheme)

Objective-C

#import "MaterialNavigationDrawer.h"
#import "MaterialNavigationDrawer+Theming.h"

...
 // Create a navigation drawer
MDCBottomDrawerViewController *bottomDrawerViewController = [[MDCBottomDrawerViewController alloc] init];
 // Create or use your app's Container Scheme
MDCContainerScheme *containerScheme = [[MDCContainerScheme alloc] init];
 // Theme the bottom drawer
[bottomDrawerViewController applyThemeWithScheme:containerScheme];